MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
BARBOUR, District Judge.
Petitioner Edward Earl Johnson, a black man, was convicted in 1980 in the Circuit Court of Leake County, Mississippi, of the capital murder of Town Marshal J.T. Trest, a white man, at a time when Trest was performing official duties as a law enforcement officer. At a subsequent sentencing hearing pursuant to Mississippi's bifurcated scheme, a jury imposed a sentence of death. On direct appeal, the Mississippi...
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